idiosyncrasy Today

Scathing social commentary meets the gamer generation.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

We don't need no stinking reflections

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating made from the material that enables vastly improved control over the basic properties of light. The research could open the door to much brighter LEDs, more efficient solar cells, and a new class of "smart" light sources that adjust to specific environments, among many other potential applications.

This is pretty awesome, now we can finally have invisible helicopters, all the better to blow up people with :(

Full Article Here

\\drew

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home